Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction1 Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel 1 For "an Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Money"? The Tower of Babel and the Ambiguities of Progress 2 Framing the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People 3 Monopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good 4 Antwerp as an International "Community of Commerce" in Philip's 1549 Joyous Entry2 Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp 1 Images of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art 2 "Alzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen es": Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp 3 Defining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries 4 Between Light and Darkness: Bruegel's The Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre 5 Toward a New Model of Religiosity3 "In Their Houses": Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp 1 "Permissible even for sailors"? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp 2 Theological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households 3 In "zyne huysen": The Procession to Calvary , Ommegangen , and the Relocation of Religious Practices4 "Outside in the Woods": The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist and Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp 1 Picturing Conversations in Bruegel's Sermon of Saint John the Baptist 5 "If You Are without a Sin": Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 1 Truth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 2 Adultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegel's Grisaille6 Choosing "the Best Part": Christian Death and Life in Bruegel's The Death of the Virgin 1 "Sweet Sleep" and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegel's Grisaille 2 Artistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the VirginEpilogueBibliographyIndex.